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The Long March of an American Writer
From: The Washington Post
Date: 19980503
Author:Michael Pearson
WILLIAM STYRON
A Life
By James L. W. West III Random House. 596 pp. $30 Thomas Carlyle once remarked, "A well-written life is almost as rare as a well-spent one." In James West's biography of William Styron, the reader often finds both, a life story written with care and precision about one of the most provocative and controversial contemporary American novelists. William Styron: A Life may not be the typical tale of an American writer, the story we associate with Poe, Melville, or Fitzgerald, a narrative about a writer who is damned by dollars, forced into hack work or Hollywood, dismissed, ...
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